Lindsay Dawn Mackenzie

Review: Poetry



Eternal beauty

extol the beauty from a poetic side and the whisper of the word and the hint of a image is a privilege and author who is available to very few, and one of them is without doubt the filmmaker and leave us that wonderful "Secret Sunshine" just three years, Lee Chang-dong. In this particular odyssey Shin-ae was recently widowed mother you live in the hardest of experiences, and be their loneliness and helplessness engines will launch a world of sadness and longing. As in "Secret Sunshine" and giving the impression that this is a special leaflet on women's loneliness from different perspectives, "Poetry" delves into the suffering unfortunate parallel outcomes and loss of hope to characters who might have a predefined destination and hard switching, but in a permanent struggle against the target precisely and in constant search of a more dynamic channel to a life of its own too routine.

But this After Chang-dong Lee goes further in every way. Over the course of poetry, verses, builds a history laden with different nuances and connotations that brings us to position ourselves from many windows facing the same twilight landscape. Both the main character, the tender and sensitive Mi-ja, like all secondary amalgam essential, part of a scene bathed in verses say nothing of the poetry rather than in the abstract, creating a mesmerizing and highly emotional universe.

Mi-ja is played by the legendary (South Korea) Yoon Jeong-hee that after a prolonged absence from the screen, returns to prove he is the best actress in the history of Korean cinema, in what is probably the best role of his career. Yoon Jeong-hee brings both the character and enriches it in a way that allows an empathy so intense and emotional with a stunning total transparency and dramatic flow.

The story is dramatic from the beginning to a tragic event (the suicide of a teenager), but Lee Chang-dong is becoming with the absolute masters in a tribute to the story more poignant and varied, and a compendium of good arts in the service of an image as expressive as substantial.

"Poetry" is a cinematic postcard contains verses as enigmatic as simple as effusive as ironic as emotional and preoccupied. An encounter with this most tragic since been more misunderstood. A brilliant way to approach beauty.

An endless and eternal beauty.


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Review: Crossing the boundary



The hellish boarding

The relationship between parents and teens in recent years, which has significantly reduced the paternal authority better or worse, is a genuine social problem and a torment to all parents who are unable to address a situation that repeatedly gets out of hand. The Psychology is emerging as one of the solutions, but the imagination of writer Peter Saballs i Nadal offers us another option in this strange film that navigates between two stools and that fails to reach safe haven in no time.

From this social conflict, Xavi Giménez directs this film that plays to stretch the ends, drives the essence of the extraordinary novel by Aldous Huxley "Brave New World" in its version of youth indoctrination taking him to the violent excitement, but not manages very well in this environment, and it suffers from low credibility is weak and most important in their approach.

This time, father have to mediate with rebel without a cause is the possibility of interning at a behavior modification with a reprehensible methods and results more than doubtful how could it be otherwise. Neither

good interpretations of Marcel Borrás and Adolfo Fernández as father and son get up at least one argument which arises initially as attractive and resulting in a history not known as it should fit the extreme with the most intimate , and where the parallel stories (especially the sweetened relationship infidelity) are uninteresting and remote at all times of the resulting climate. The music performed

by Macaco is the biggest success of the film and knows very well adapted to this story but it does not get enough stability to attract a viewer who just sit in the seat feels like you are mesmerizing and is predisposed to enjoy a captivating story.

If the recent French film "LOL" failed to be extremely superficial, "Yellow" (so called in their international) does not work for not knowing how to raise a social reality with an exaggerated fiction in a plane and not achieved the necessary balance .

"Crossing the border" that leave us it a good final scene of dialogue abrupt between father and son is well worth noting in a film that in any case can be entertaining in some ways a moral and aesthetic approach.


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Review: Scott Pilgrim



colorful pop Delirio

Placing a film in its proper context, understanding the ways to fund and accepting outside sources and references , one can fully enjoy the product so atypical as "Scott Pilgrim."

Based on a popular comic by Canadian Bryan Lee O'Malley, the film presents itself as a successful extension of the comic almost all its concepts, and from this premise, it works with absolute fluency and with a continued and little speculative detail.

Scott is a teenager living in Toronto, who dreams of conquering the mysterious Ramona Flowers. But to win the heart of this girl, you must defeat her seven "evil exes." This simple beginning narrative will be used by the director Edgar Wright, who strikes us as a romantic comedy with zombies (Shaun of the Dead) and with that subtle parody (Hot Fuzz) - to compose a colorful mosaic structured and where the form will pop superimposed on the background so that only the Finally acquire important enough to highlight in itself. In this sense one could say no problems that the film is pure comic with pieces of game. That is, it respects both the format and handle it with such ease and daring that comics-movie-game are a formal trick of undeniable visual interest and a few cracks.

Apart from this, Wright uses elements of comedy - sometimes surreal, but always bold, to support history and turn the narrative on a fun show and with massive doses of voluptuous essence burtoniana. " And is that if Tim Burton's influence can be seen in some details, such as the recent films "Kick Ass" or the work of Tarantino's "Kill Bill" are clear examples of a film where everything works in favor of spectacle, and the end result will look more favored the more they used alternative media to film enforcement mechanism. All this leads to a teen pop culture environment, where the staging is so important, like music (mostly independent) or literary and cinematic references. A compendium that inevitably forces us to remember Andy Warhol's work in all its aspects and the stela that has left over the years.

In this environment, the performances are in strict conformity format, and the same player Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) that bears some resemblance to that distant aesthetic Jack Putter (Martin Short) for the curious "Innerspace", an anti-hero is all old-fashioned but post modernist touches.

Yet risk and courage, the film works, and will appeal especially to those who feel more identified with the concepts provided (not necessarily geeks) and those who enjoy exalted fights to the "street fighter" junior and sometimes absurd comedy in a purely virtual environment and picturesque.


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Review: Certified copy




Doubling reality

Is it possible that a copy can be better than original? Probably the answer to the naked eye can be easy, especially if we speak of art as it begins "were certified copy" by focusing the argument. But the truth is we live in a turbulent world in which emotional states become more important than ever and where reality and fiction overlap and double as the original copy and art, so sometimes answer that initial question does not involve a simple exercise, and yes instead a moral dilemma and second intellectual.

Abbas Kiarostami is a master at exposing the focus of public miseries and misfortunes of the human soul, and give a confused but pragmatic category of transcendence. "The Taste of Cherry" assumed its definitive breakthrough as a filmmaker, but as essential titles like "Where is the house of my friend?" Or "The Wind Will Carry Us" certifying him as a director of the new wave paradigm Iranian and a cinema intimate and committed man like few others.

His first foray into western cinema could not have been brighter. Without losing sight of its characteristic at any time movies, we present in this occasion a game repairs, a journey that will lead to the transposition of the words and characters with the ghost of the paradox at the heart consensus. Kiarostami has fun, but equally is tested and checking on the ability of the viewer to assume a cumbersome but also enjoyable. A trap perfectly designed and equipped to build a story that seems far from lacking head and tail is a perfect structural building ideas, feelings and emotions which diverge in many ways and options, creating a wonderful web of imaginative and fun.

In a way we can talk about an attempt to find the essence and substance of relationships at various levels and ages , taking in this sense a slight autobiographical path and making the film at some stage in a detailed study of the different situations that you face a continued cohabitation , and makes the most original way, through the transfiguration of complex and dynamic characters. To do this, Kiarostami break-necessarily-with its commendable attitude to work with non-actors to have this time with Juliette Binoche as a key piece and extraordinary result, and William Shimell as valuable and successful partner "arms".

With the unbeatable Tuscan travels within the film (as Richard Linklater hiciese with "Before Sunset in Paris) in a slow but intense through some scenarios in a conversational enviable pleasant, entertaining and thoughtful course, there an intermediate point where the film will take different paths. An abrupt change at all, and yes very consistent with all previously created the climate and that can be monitored in the clear natural complexity in which we find ourselves. Abbas Kiarostami

signing a magnificent film, "I'll love you forever" as a reference Rossellini unavoidable, or the magic of the transposition of characters from the films of David Lynch as "Lost Highway" or especially "Mulholland Drive" as the key to tell the story differently than usual, but always with a sharp stamp author, and an enviable talent to develop a history a priori conventional and slow, in a marvel of narrative structure, dramatic and emotional.


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Review : Julia's eyes




Under darkness

Again we are talking about a new horror movie and intrigue by the hand of a young director of our film, albeit covered by a Guillermo del Toro sometimes hard to believe that actually engage in some projects. A genus very well treated in recent years in our country, and breaking new ground in terms of aesthetics and originality. In our eyes are still films like "The Others", "Rec," "The Orphanage" and directors like Pastor Fresnadillo or siblings, with some relevance outside our borders.

This time the film is signed by Guillem Morales, of which only know the modest "The inhabitant uncertain", and which has been given the opportunity to have a good cast and a careful production.
The end result can not be said that falls short of the above. With Oriol Paulo designing a script but has some appeal at the beginning of the film, as the story unfolds is becoming a collection of cliches and trite elements that force to go slowly losing interest.

Julia is a woman who is slowly losing his sight due to degenerative disease, as happened to her twin sister. This environment will take advantage of darkness to play with fireworks Morales fairly conventional although in a proper and acceptable in some moments. The problem is that all that surprising adventure, novel or intriguing is becoming lace script abrupt leave feeling we have ever seen this or another scene, and makes the story very conservative history and with little fanfare imaginative.

To raise the tone of the movie one better than Lluis Homar an excellent new paper, and the popular Belén Rueda, who while making a quite remarkable role is obscured by the limitations of the character created, and above all by the blatant recent copy of the character Laura in the movie "The Orphanage." And the truth is that there are some more similarities with this film that made us question cast the election seriously.

Morales also keeps us a little tribute to "The Silence of the Lambs" and allows us to recall happy times of gender, although the difference is palpable and too prominent.

Overall, the movie enjoys a more for fans of the genre, and with some appeal for the rest, with few ambitions in advance and with the urgent and implausible need to please all audiences.



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